Call for applications for 2025 Fabienne Colas Foundation’s BEING BLACK IN CANADA PROGRAM
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR 2025 Fabienne Colas Foundation’s BEING BLACK IN CANADA PROGRAM Montreal, Toronto, Halifax, Ottawa, Calgary, and Vancouver Presented by NETFLIX in Collaboration with National Bank
Deadline: JUNE 6, 2025
(Montreal – May 1st, 2025) – The Fabienne Colas Foundation’s Being Black in Canada program – Canada’s largest incubator dedicated to Black Filmmakers – is thrilled to be back with a call for applications for its 2024 edition. Thanks to the support of Netflix, the National Bank, Telefilm Canada, and Canada Council for the Arts and various local partners, the Program will support up to 21 new young, promising Black filmmakers in Montreal, Toronto, Halifax, Ottawa, Calgary, and Vancouver.
The program’s eligibility criteria and application form are available HERE. Candidates have until June 6, 2025 to apply and only those selected will be contacted
As part of the BEING BLACK IN CANADA program, emerging filmmakers will address the issue of social integration of people from Black communities in their city through film. The participants will be guided through the many steps in audiovisual production (screenwriting, directing, editing, post-production, etc.), and will create a documentary short (from 8 to 10 minutes). This process will be carried out under the professional tutelage of industry professionals with professional equipment. Their final work will be screened as a World Premieres in 2026 at the Toronto Black Film Festival, followed by the Halifax Black Film Festival, the Montreal International Black Film Festival as well as the Black Film Festivals in Ottawa, Calgary, and Vancouver.
The Fabienne Colas Foundation’s BEING BLACK IN CANADA represents Canada’s largest incubator dedicated to emerging Black Filmmakers. As part of the Fabienne Colas Foundation’s Youth and Diversity Initiative, the FCF’s Being Black in Canada program was created to make up for the blatant lack of diversity and the lack of Black People in front and behind the camera in Canada. Founded in 2012, with the first cohort launched in 2014, the Program gives a voice and a platform to creators who would not otherwise be seen or heard. The Foundation actively promotes equal opportunities for Black Film professionals while fostering Diversity on our screens that unfortunately showcase content that is too white for a truly diverse society.
Get to know the 2024 BEING BLACK IN CANADA cohort here
Watch the FCF’S Being Black in Canada 2022 films online on CBC GEM (Broadcast in 2024)
About the Fabienne Colas Foundation
The Fabienne Colas Foundation (FCF) is a not-for-profit cultural organization dedicated to building bridges and advancing education through the arts as well as to support the creation, production, promotion and dissemination of cinema, the arts and culture in Canada and elsewhere. To fulfill its mission, the Foundation put together 12 festivals and programs to break barriers, celebrate diversity, foster togetherness, understanding and inclusion. Since its inception in 2005, its initiatives/festivals have showcased and supported over 5,000 artists and attracted over 2 million festivalgoers in Canada, the USA, Haiti and Brazil. The Foundation mostly promotes Black culture in Montréal, Toronto, Halifax, New York City et Salvador de Bahia (Brazil); and Quebec culture in Port-au-Prince. www.fondationfabiennecolas.org
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